NSEC/LANL Summer School Opportunities
National Security Education Center (NSEC) and other Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer Schools for 2018 include:
Computer System, Cluster, and Networking Summer Institute
The Computer System, Cluster, and Networking Summer Institute (CSCNSI) is a focused technical enrichment program for students currently engaged in computer science, computer engineering, or similar major. The primary objective of the CSCNSI is to provide a thorough introduction to the techniques and practices of cluster computing.
Dates: The CSCNSI is executed as a paid ten-week research internship, June 5 through August 10, and will be held at the Los Alamos Research Park in Los Alamos, NM.
Deadline: December 1, 2017.
US Citizen Requirement: Students hired into these positions have the potential to work toward a regular position within a Division that will require a Q Clearance. To obtain a Q Clearance, an individual must be at least 18 years of age; US citizenship is required except in very limited circumstances and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified matter.
IS&T Data Science at Scale Summer School
The Los Alamos National Lab’s Data Science at Scale School was inaugurated in 2013 to recruit outstanding students to the laboratory to participate in data intensive science projects. Particular focus is placed on using big data technologies to gain insights from science data.
Target Student: Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students
Dates: Although most students are present at the lab for 12 weeks in the June to August timeframe, the schedule is flexible to meet individual needs and the school is active year round.
Deadline: January 15, 2018.
US Citizen Requirement: Students need not be US citizens.
Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship
A 10 week program aimed at providing students with a foundation in modern high performance computing (HPC) topics integrated with research on real problems encountered in large-scale scientific codes. Students will collaborate in teams to identify and investigate different computational problems and implement solutions with guidance from mentors with scientific and computational expertise.
This highly-selective program is designed for upper division undergraduates to early graduate students from all STEM fields. As a general guideline, students should have moderate experience with a compiled scientific computing language, such as C, C++, or Fortran and with the Linux operating system.
Dates: The program will last ten weeks, June 4 through August 10, 2018, and will be held at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Students must be available to live and work in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Deadline: January 26, 2018. Apply now!
US Citizenship Requirement: None. Students must be enrolled in an accredited US university and be in good academic standing.
ISTI/ASC Co-Design Summer School
Co-design School recruits 6-8 graduate students from varying backgrounds (usually computer science, computational physics, and mathematics) to work on a computational co-design topic, such as novel programming models, on a specific application, such as hydrodynamics. The work usually results in research papers and posters.
Target Student: Upper-level graduate students
Dates: Students must be available to live and work in Los Alamos, New Mexico for 10 weeks, sometime from mid-May through early September of 2017 (exact dates TBD).
Deadline: January 26, 2018
US Citizenship Requirement: Does not require US citizenship.
Cyber Security School
Target Student: Junior, Senior, or Master’s students
Dates: This is a 10 week program from June 5 through August 10, 2018.
Deadline: January 10, 2018.
US Citizenship Requirement: You must be eligible for a Q clearance, besides that there is no US citizenship requirement.
Applied Research in Earth Science (ARiES) Summer School – Machine Learning Research Fellowship
This is an intense 10-week program is aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in modern machine learning (ML) topics combined with research on real problems encountered in national laboratory missions.
Target Student: Graduate students
Dates: The program will be 10 weeks long from May 29 through August 3, 2018
Deadline: December 15, 2017
US Citizenship Requirement: Does not require US citizenship.
Computational Physics Workshop
While not an NSEC Summer School, the Computational Physics Workshop has similar purpose and objectives, and offers a similar opportunity as the NSEC Summer Schools. This workshop seeks to bring to Los Alamos National Laboratory a diverse group of exceptional undergraduate and graduate students for informative, enriching lectures and to work with its staff for 10 weeks on interesting, relevant projects that may culminate in articles or conference presentations. Students are organized into groups of 2-3 working under the guidance of one or more mentors.
Dates: June 11 to August 17, 2018.
Deadline: January 16, 2018.
US Citizenship Requirement: You must be a US citizen.
Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School
The Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School focuses a select group of students on the multi-disciplinary field of dynamics, spanning electrical, mechanical, structural and cyber-physical systems*. The students’ research will be applied to creating solutions to Los Alamos National Laboratory mission-relevant problems defined by LANL R&D engineers.
Dates: June 4 – August 3, 2018
Deadline: January 17, 2018
US Citizenship Requirement: You must be a US citizen.
Space Weather
This summer school, sponsored by various organizations within Los Alamos National Laboratory, brings together top space science graduate students and the Lab’s internationally renowned space scientists to work on challenging space weather topics and instrumentation.
Dates: June 4 –July 27, 2018
Deadline: January 12, 2018.
US Citizenship Requirement: The program is open to US and foreign PhD students in space physics, planetary sciences, aerospace engineering, or a related field. Review the information for non-US citizens, if applicable.
Seaborg Institute Summer Research Fellowship
Summer Research Fellowships Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security and the G. T. Seaborg Institute for Transactinium Science.
Dates: 10-12 weeks between June and August
Deadline: October 27, 2017
US Citizenship Requirement: All nationalities welcome to apply.
Summer Physics Camp for Young Women
Free two-week summer school hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the New Mexico Consortium and the Pojoaque High School. This summer school is for local high school women to participate in science as well as learn from and get to know female professionals working in STEM programs as scientists, research technologists, and engineers.
Dates: June 11 – 22, 2018
Deadline: April 30, 2018
US Citizenship Requirement: All nationalities welcome to apply.
Future Female Leaders in Engineering
The future Female Leaders in Engineering (FFLIE) Program inspires undergraduate students to achieve their full potential as engineers and future leaders. It also supports and celebrates their many achievements and successes.
Dates: June 13 to August 8, 2018
Deadline: No deadline. Apply as soon as you can.
US Citizenship Requirement: US citizenship required.
Judicial Science School
Developed through close collaboration between the Laboratory’s top science, engineering, and legal professionals, this week-long course represents a complete primer on the scientific method that is tailored for judges. The goal of this program is to enable judges to make more informed decisions about the admissibility of scientific evidence. When judges improve, lawyers must improve, and the people and businesses in our courts will benefit from a better justice system.
Dates: April 2-6, 2018 and again August 2018
Deadline to Apply: For more information contact the NSEC.
US Citizenship Requirement: You must be a US citizen as well as a judge for this program.
SOS Advanced Studies Institute
The Advanced Studies Institute is a professional development opportunity for multi-disciplinary advanced Ph.D. students and postdocs interested in learning skills needed for research program development at National Laboratories and academia.
Dates: April 16 to May 14, 2018
Deadline to Apply: January 17, 2018
US Citizenship Requirement: This program welcomes qualified applicants who are U.S. Citizens or permanent residents; however, since LANL is a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory, there are extra paperwork requirements for non-U.S. citizens.
Nonproliferation Summer School
Students spend a summer learning about how game-changing science, engineering, and technology are applied to reduce the dynamic threats of nuclear proliferation. Students spend the majority of their time working either individually or in small teams with a LANL staff member on a research project that has a strong connection to nuclear security science and nonproliferation.
Dates: mid-June to mid-August
Deadline to Apply: November 30, 2017
US Citizenship Requirement: Must be a US citizen.